[dropping the bug from Cc, it's archived anyway]
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 23:10:07 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> In reality, it's a strange situation whereby the rxvt started from within
> a window manager (wmaker, xfce) started from within a desktop manager (gdm)
> doesn't accept inputted letters which have special characters (those I need
> Latin 2 for). But, if I start another rxvt from within that rxvt, that
> next instance *does* accept those characters and shows them using the right
> font.
>
> Is that bug known, has anyone filed anything like that?
>
Maybe a locale problem? If I run 'LC_CTYPE=C rxvt' it doesn't seem to
accept non-ascii characters, whereas it does with 'LC_CTYPE=fr_FR rxvt'.
If your window manager doesn't run in the right locale, but the shell's
startup scripts setup the locale, that could explain what you're seeing?
> > > BTW, the copyright file in xfonts-75dpi-transcoded does not mention
> > > the location of the upstream sources, which is a violation of
> > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
> > > ("the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were
> > > obtained"). That also makes it harder to check if these files can be found
> > > somewhere upstream (and repackaged).
> >
> > The xfonts-* packages include a bunch of different fonts from
> > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/
> > I'll fix the copyright file, thanks for noticing.
>
> Thanks. Do you want me to file this as a separate set of bug reports?
>
That'd help to make sure I don't forget about it :)
Cheers,
Julien
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